Last Tuesday Society

The Last Tuesday Society is a London-based organization founded by William James at Harvard and run by artist Viktor Wynd[1] and puts on literary and artistic events.[2]

The Society has put on a large array of parties over the last 8 years or so, including Halloween Balls,[3] Wyndstock, a festival at Houghton Hall in Norfolk,[4] The Animal Party,[5] From The Beast To The Blond - a Fairy Tale Masked Ball with Marina Warner[6] The Orphanage Masked Ball,[7] a Danse Macabre[8] and 'Loss; an Evening of Exquisite Misery' and modern day version of Gunter Grass's Fictional onion cellar nightclub from The Tin Drum where guests dress in decaying beauty, chop onions and cry.[9]

Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors was located in Mare Street Hackney and dealt in taxidermy, shrunken heads and all things odd.[10] Viktor Wynd Fine Art was a commercial gallery where over 50 shows were curated including on Mervyn Peake[11] Tessa Farmer[12] Leonora Carrington[13] and Stephen Tennant[14] In 2014 the shop and art gallery were converted into The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History[15] and a bar[16] following a kickstarter campaign[17] The Society has a long association with Hendricks Gin who have sponsored 'The Hendrick's Quarterly Seance'[18] and seem to currently be sponsoring the exhibitions program on Alasdair Gray, Gunter Grass & Mervyn Peake.[19]

The Society also has put on what it claims to be London's longest running lecture series with over 500 lectures in the last ten years.[20]

References

  1. ↑ "The Last Tuesday Society". artlurker.com.
  2. ↑ "London Underground : At Home With Vintage Design". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  3. ↑ "Halloween horror: Celebrate All Hallow's Eve with The Last Tuesday Society, The Halloween Masked Ball or at Eat Your Heart Out in London". TNT Magazine.
  4. ↑ "Wyndstock - A Midsummer Night's Ball & Garden Party - Wild Card - Run Riot". Run Riot.
  5. ↑ "The Animal Party". LondonTown.
  6. ↑ "Marina Warner, From The Beast To The Blonde, Fairy Tale Masked Ball, Last Tuesday Society". remotegoat.com.
  7. ↑ "The Orphanage Masked Ball". Time Out London. 10 November 2012.
  8. ↑ "last tuesday society - London Particulars". wordpress.com.
  9. ↑ "Loss - An evening of exquisite misery at the Arts Theatre". Run Riot.
  10. ↑ "Little Shop of Horrors". How To Spend It.
  11. ↑ "Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Art Opening Saturday 9th July 2011". fadmagazine.com.
  12. ↑ "The Fairies Are Coming - Tessa Farmer". tumblr.com.
  13. ↑ "Phantasmaphile". Phantasmaphile.
  14. ↑ Murgatroyd. "Serge & Tweed: Stephen Tennant at Viktor Wynd Fine Art". sergeandtweed.blogspot.co.uk.
  15. ↑ Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent (7 November 2014). "Museum of creepy curiosities opens in London". Evening Standard.
  16. ↑ "N.B.: Horizon and the CIA". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  17. ↑ "Hackney's Little Shop of Horrors will become a museum". Hackney Post.
  18. ↑ "Gin Lane: Spirit forces at work at the Hendrick's Quarterly Seance". ginlanebar.blogspot.co.uk.
  19. ↑ SarahAStewart (29 September 2015). "Three Authors And Their Art At Museum Of Curiosities". Londonist.
  20. ↑ JE. "Morbid Anatomy: The Viktor Wynd Museum: A New Museum of Curiosities in London Needs Your Help!". morbidanatomy.blogspot.co.uk.
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